SALEM, Ore. – The addition of another Cascade Collegiate Conference (CCC) member in 2025 provided another layer of complexity for the Corban University Baseball program as they continue their climb through the NAIA rankings, with another 50-game set scheduled for this upcoming spring season containing plenty of strong matchups across the Pacific Northwest and greater west coast region. This spring, the Warriors will host 20 of their total contests at Roto-Rooter Park, formerly Volcanoes Stadium, stretching across 11 dates and containing a single scrimmage while their remaining 26 contests will take place either on the road or at neutral site facilities.
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"We're excited as a team for the upcoming spring season," Coach Harris stated when asked to discuss the 2025 slate he's laid out for his program. "I think our non-conference schedule is great. I believe it provides urgency in the product we want to put on the field knowing that we only have three weeks until conference play starts. We go on the road a lot this season and face plenty of ranked opponents in the non-conference slate, both teams in our conference and within our playing arc. From there, it's officially go-time with a forty-game conference schedule. As a team full of competitors, this schedule brings intensity and intentionality in the things we do and in preparing for this slate. I'm looking forward to a great season of Corban baseball."
The Navy and Gold will kick off the 2026 slate with a friendly crosstown scrimmage against Chemeketa Community College, with the Warriors hosting the single game affair at 3pm on January 16th. They'll have a quick turnaround from their sole scrimmage of the season to the season-opening road trip, which will see Corban baseball travel to Arizona for three games against expected ranked opponents from outside the CCC. Across January 22nd, 23rd, and 24th, the Warriors will partake in the Coach Calderone Invitational, hosted by Arizona Christian University at various campus sites. They'll battle Taylor University, the host Firestorm, and Benedictine University Mesa in single counting contests over the three-day span, with game locations still to be determined.
Only two non-conference series separate Corban and the start of CCC action once they return from Arizona, beginning on January 30th and 31st as they'll host second-year CCC member Warner Pacific University for a three-game set in what will represent the home opener contests for the Warriors. The following weekend, they'll venture just south of the southern Oregon border into Redding for a two-day doubleheader series at Simpson University, making up for the four games they attempted to play in northern California last season before the rain forced them to play on the turf in Keizer instead.
In conjunction with the updated scheduling the CCC laid out following the addition of WPU to the conference last spring, the first three series of conference play will feature three CCC contests and a single non-conference matchup represented by the fourth and final game of each series. This season, those three series will take place across the final two weekends of February and first of March, with Corban traveling to Oregon Tech before back-to-back home series against The College of Idaho and Eastern Oregon University.
The complete four-game CCC slates will begin on March 14th for the Navy and Gold, beginning with back-to-back road trips to Vancouver, British Columbia and Lewiston, Idaho to battle the University of British Columbia and Lewis-Clark State College, respectively, each of whom have claimed the conference crown in the prior two seasons. Due to a scheduling conflict with Roto-Rooter Park, the Warriors will forego their hosting of I-5 rival Bushnell University on March 27th and 28th and instead serve as the home team on the Beacons' home field at Hamlin Sports Park, marking a month-long period all on the road when factoring in their April 3rd and 4th trip to Caldwell to rematch with the Yotes.
Two of the final three series in conference play will take place on Corban's home turf, beginning on April 10th and 11th with the Hustlin' Owls before they once again host Warner Pac on the 17th and 18th, with day two representing the Warriors' Senior Day contests. Finally, the Dubs will wrap up the 2026 regular season in La Grande with the Mountaineers hosting a four-game set at Optimist Field.
The 2026 CCC Tournament will be hosted by the regular season champions and will take place from May 1st to 4th at the respective champions' home field. The winner of the CCC tourney will earn the conference's only automatic bid to the 2026 NAIA National Tournament, which begins on May 11th with Opening Rounds that will be hosted on campus sites selected by the national organization based on bids submitted. LC State will once again be the host university of the Avista NAIA World Series at Harris Field, which is scheduled to begin on Friday, May 22nd and played out through the following Saturday with a new national champion being crowned in the tourney finale.
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